Sentences with phrase «improved economic welfare»

This indicated a marked decline in the usefulness of GNP figures, if the goal is improved economic welfare.

If it turned out that in the twenty years after 1965 continuing growth of GNP had not been accompanied by improved economic welfare, then surely it was time for a national discussion of how welfare could be improved.

If it had ended, then it would seem appropriate to ask what policies are now needed if our concern is to improve economic welfare of people rather than increase production for its own sake.

It would seem more rational to draw the conclusion that in the circumstances of the time, increasing GDP was a rather ineffective way of improving economic welfare.

This suggests that economic growth at this stage of U.S. history may be a quite inefficient way of improving economic welfare.

Yet when their results are examined more carefully, they would seem, at the very least, to call for close monitoring of the economy with the distinction between improving economic welfare and growth of GNP in mind.

In the context of high levels of poverty and malnutrition, the priority for many African countries is increasing access to energy services and improving the economic welfare of their people.

Not exact matches

A good part of Putin's political success has been based on his record of improving people's welfare, but with no relief in sight for Russia's economic troubles, it may only be a matter a time before the general populace begins to feel the pinch more sharply.

«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»

In order to show that increasing total production does not improve human welfare, we have developed an Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) for the United States.

In order to defeat underdevelopment, action is required not only on improving exchange - based transactions and implanting public welfare structures, but above all on gradually increasing openness, in a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communion.

Their argument is that the correlation between growth of per capita GNP and improvement of economic welfare is sufficient that policies leading to that growth will improve economic well - being.

From 1951 to 1988 economic welfare has improved as Gross National Product has risen.

But although that causes the GNP to grow, the economic welfare of the people is not improved.

I noted that Nordhaus and Tobin came to their conclusion that economic growth improves welfare by taking their statistics for the entire period of their study.

According to chairman of ALEC Simon Crean, in just two years of full ESCAS application the Australian livestock export trade has made huge inroads into improving animal welfare outcomes and placed the trade on a stronger footing to support its ongoing vital economic and job - sustaining role in regional Australia.

Hear him: «Let me assure you that if I am elected President, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria as it has had to recently; that Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa; and that no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service; we will give them adequate and modern arms and ammunition to work with; we will improve intelligence gathering and border controls to choke Boko Haram's financial and equipment channels; we will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development plan promoting infrastructural development, job creation, agriculture and industry in the affected areas.

Following best practices will improve welfare of cattle and provide economic benefits in dairy and beef transportation, according to a new article in The Professional Animal Scientist.

This revolution in new knowledge about the developing brain and human genome, linked to advances in the behavioral and social sciences, offers new opportunities for more effective strategies to improve outcomes in education, economic development, health, and social welfare.

By comparing fourth - grade literacy outcomes against the experiences and inputs that produced these results — including indicators of health - care and preschool access, family economic well - being, mental - health and child - welfare services, nutrition, and comprehensive school quality — we can identify gaps in how we are serving children and target investments and reforms to those areas with the greatest potential to improve children's long - term life outcomes.

Ultimately frequent and accurate information about diseases outbreaks improves horse welfare and helps to prevent negative economic impact that can result from decreased horse use due to a fear of spreading infection.

Owners learn how better welfare standards can improve productivity, resulting in economic gain.

It stresses that improving women's access to forest resources and effectively including them in decision making leads to greater investment in children's welfare and has positive effects on economic growth and sustainable resource management.

This has always been the only serious risk and what must be avoided if the US and the developed world is to have a prosperous future that will allow humans to have access to the fossil fuel - generated energy needed for continued economic progress and improved human welfare and if plants are to not to lose partial access to one of their basic nutrients (assumming CO2 emissions reductions have any real effects on atmospheric CO2 levels).

Increasing the cost of using energy by raising its cost will decrease its use and thus human welfare and economic productivity, which are strongly associated with an improved environment as humans turn to such issues as their basic needs are satisfied.

In a summary report for renewable technologies (from may 2011), the IPCC reiterated that the demand for energy and associated services to meet social and economic development and improve human welfare and health is increasing and that overwhelmingly, this energy demand is met by fossil fuels.

Application of an integrated multidisciplinary economic welfare approach to improved wellbeing through Aboriginal caring for country.

Further economic analysis, drawing on 15 - year outcome data (Olds et al., 1997) suggested that the economic case for home visiting for all women was much stronger, given the impacts it had in terms of reducing abuse, violence, the need for social welfare benefits and improved employment prospects (Karoly et al., 1998, 2005).